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"The presence of same-sex friendships and contacts living in stable homes seems to increase condom use," says senior author Colette Auerswald, MD, a UCSF associate adjunct professor of pediatrics and director of the Masters in Medical Science program for the UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical Program.She was based at the UCSF Division of Adolescent Medicine of the UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital at the time of the study.

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The data collected were part of the Street Youth in Social Environments study, a longitudinal NIH-funded study conducted by Auerswald examining the relationships among street culture, social networks, and STI/HIV risk in homeless youths in San Francisco.

This study builds on research that used the same sample of homeless youths in San Francisco to investigate the impact of social networks on shelter use among homeless youths.
Published in the June issue of the Journal of Adolescent Health, the researchers found that street youths whose social networks included people who used shelters, increased the odds of their own shelter use over time.

"Together these studies suggest the value of designing social network-based interventions to improve the health of our city's marginally housed youth," says Auerswald.

"The presence of same-sex friendships and contacts living in stable homes seems to increase condom use," study senior author Dr. Colette Auerswald, an associate adjunct professor of pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco, said in a university news release.

"Young homeless men seem to name these social network contacts more frequently than do young homeless women.
It will be important in future investigations to ask why this happens," she added.

IMAGE: Senior author, Colette Auerswald, M.D., is a UCSF associate adjunct professor of pediatrics and director of the Masters in Medical Science program for the UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical Program....
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"The presence of same-sex friendships and contacts living in stable homes seems to increase condom use," said senior author Colette Auerswald, MD, a UCSF associate adjunct professor of pediatrics and director of the Masters in Medical Science program for the UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical Program.She was based at the UCSF Division of Adolescent Medicine of the UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital at the time of the study.

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The data collected were part of the Street Youth in Social Environments study, a longitudinal NIH-funded study conducted by Auerswald examining the relationships among street culture, social networks and STI/HIV risk in homeless youth in San Francisco.

This study builds on research that used the same sample of homeless youth in San Francisco to investigate the impact of social networks on shelter use among homeless youth.
Published in the June issue of the Journal of Adolescent Health, the researchers found that street youth whose social networks included people who used shelters, increased the odds of their own shelter use over time.

"Together these studies suggest the value of designing social network-based interventions to improve the health of our city's marginally housed youth," said Auerswald.

"The presence of same-sex friendships and contacts living in stable homes seems to increase condom use," said senior author Colette Auerswald, MD, a UCSF associate adjunct professor of pediatrics and director of the Masters in Medical Science program for the UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical Program.She was based at the UCSF Division of Adolescent Medicine of the UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital at the time of the study.

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The data collected were part of the Street Youth in Social Environments study, a longitudinal NIH-funded study conducted by Auerswald examining the relationships among street culture, social networks and STI/HIV risk in homeless youth in San Francisco.

This study builds on research that used the same sample of homeless youth in San Francisco to investigate the impact of social networks on shelter use among homeless youth.
Published in the June issue of the Journal of Adolescent Health, the researchers found that street youth whose social networks included people who used shelters, increased the odds of their own shelter use over time.

"Together these studies suggest the value of designing social network-based interventions to improve the health of our city's marginally housed youth," said Auerswald.